10 Recently Released MUST See Horror Movie Trailers

There is so much more to a movie than the time an audience will spend actually watching it. While there are moments that will stick in the mind for sometimes decades afterwards, there is also what comes before. The anticipation and excitement.

Generally, to get bums on seats, a film is going to have to sell itself long before opening night. While that can start with an announcement of some kind, be it casting, directing, or just the title of the project itself, it's the trailers where things begin to ramp up.

In some cases, audiences can get pretty damn impatient in the wait to see even the tiniest tease, the smallest glimpse of what is to come, while others can really announce the film's arrival from nothing. The world of horror conforms with the rest of Hollywood in this, in that a good trailer really is crucial.

Over recent months alone there have been long awaited sequels teased, the first footage of an icon's return to the genre, and a couple of reboots and reimaginations of classic stories that actually look incredibly good. Horror fans were treated very well in 2025, and it seems as though 2026 will be no different.

2026 has been a big year for Sophie Turner already, right off the bat. First, Prime released the first look at the former Sansa Stark as Lara Croft for the upcoming Tomb Raider series, which was followed by the release of a trailer for her new film, The Dreadful.

Continuing the theme of branching her career out as far as possible, following fantasy roles, superhero roles, and soon-to-be action heroes, Turner will be stepping into the arena of creepy gothic horror as Anne.

Struggling in a world of demons of different forms, a curse, and the loss of her husband, The Dreadful has the potential to take Turner's career to new heights. Paired with the fact that Onibaba, the 1964 Japanese horror masterpiece the film is adapting, is considered among the best of its genre, it's easy to see that The Dreadful will be well worth a watch.

Turner will also be playing opposite Kit Harington, who, of course, played her half-brother Jon Snow in Game of Thrones. They may have been siblings then, and their romantic scenes together may have made both of them feel physically sick, but clearly the two have on-screen chemistry and familiarity that should bode well for the picture.